Summary:
One of the most mysterious stories of a crashed UFO with
alien bodies preceded the well know Roswell events by
some six years. Reverend William Huffman was summoned to
pray over alien crash victims outside of Cape Girardeau,
Missouri in the spring of 1941. He was shown three
victims, not human as expected, but small alien bodies
with large eyes, hardly a mouth or ears, and
hairless.

Press
article: 'Local UFO probe Researcher seeks answers to
report of crash in 1941'Peggy O'Farrel, Southeast Missourian
(credit: CSETI)A
Virginia man is investigating the possibility that a UFO
crashed near Cape Girardeau in 1941. "That would be six
years before Roswell," said James Westwood of
Centreville, Va., referring to the 1947 incident in
which the government allegedly recovered and then
covered up a UFO crash in New Mexico. "That would put
Cape Girardeau County on the UFO map." he said.
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One of the most mysterious stories of a
crashed UFO with alien bodies preceded the well know
Roswell events by some six years. This case was first
brought to investigators by Leo Stringfield in his book
"UFO Crash / Retrievals: The Inner Sanctum." He opened a
tantalizing account of a military controlled UFO crash
retrieval which is still being researched today. The
details of the case were sent to him in a letter from
one Charlette Mann, who related her
minister-grandfather's deathbed confession of being
summoned to pray over alien crash victims outside of
Cape Girardeau, Missouri in the spring of 1941. Reverend
William Huffman had been an evangelist for many years,
but had taken the resident minister reigns of the Red
Star Baptist Church in early 1941. Church records
corroborate his employment there during the period in
question.

After receiving this call to duty, he
was immediately driven the 10-15 mile journey to some
woods outside of town. Upon arriving at the scene of the
crash, he saw policemen, fire department personnel, FBI
agents, and photographers already mulling through the
wreckage. He was soon asked to pray over three dead
bodies. As he began to take in the activity around the
area, his curiosity was first struck by the sight of the
craft itself.

Expecting a small plane of some
type, he was shocked to see that the craft was
disc-shaped, and upon looking inside he saw
hieroglyphic-like symbols, indecipherable to him. He
then was shown the three victims, not human as expected,
but small alien bodies with large eyes, hardly a mouth
or ears, and hairless. Immediately after performing his
duties, he was sworn to secrecy by military personnel
who had taken charge of the crash area. He witnessed
these warnings being given to others at the scene also.

As he arrived back at his home at 1530 Main
Street, he was still in a state of mild shock, and could
not keep his story from his wife Floy, and his sons.
This late night family discussion would spawn the story
that Charlette Mann would hear from her grandmother in
1984, as she lay dying of cancer at Charlette's home
while undergoing radiation therapy. Charlette was told
the story over the span of several days, and although
Charlette had heard bits and pieces of this story
before, she now demanded the full details.

As
her grandmother tolerated her last few days on this
Earth, Charlette knew it was now or never to find out
everything she could before this intriguing story was
lost with the death of her grandmother. She also learned
that one of the members of her grandfather's
congregation, thought to be Garland D. Fronabarger, had
given him a photograph taken on the night of the crash.
This picture was of one of the dead aliens being help up
by two men.

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